Tuesday (September 10): Pakistan Today raised the issue of Jammu and Kashmir at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva and asked that the international body should investigate the situation in Jammu and Kashmir.
“Today, I have knocked on the doors of the Human Rights Council, the repository of the world’s conscience on human rights, to seek justice and respect for the people of Kashmir,” Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said while addressing the 42nd session of UNHRC.
To frame the government’s response during the UNHRC deliberations on the issue, India has sent a team of senior officials, including envoy Ajay Bisaria, who was expelled by Pakistan.
Qureshi asked the Council to urge India to immediately stop the use of pellet guns, lift the curfew, reverse the clampdown and communications blackout, restore fundamental freedoms and liberties, release political prisoners and fulfil obligations under the UN Security Council Resolutions and various human rights instruments, as required by international law.
